i still think that wasnt the right way to protest, you should have protested through not attending the next event or something like that.

QFT! Especially if you don't care that much about the NPPL, take first place in Kansas and then don't show up for Commanders Cup, as a way of saying "Your refs freaking SUCK!", which is the truth btw... but billy only makes sense in a kinda of very selfish way...

Another thing that comes to my mind is this. You see this in every division but alot more in the pro division. Always see pros crying and *****ing and whining to the refs forever if they lose or something happens and it goes on forever and ever. This is what led the refs to let the ironmen play the 3rd game. Look at other Pro sports, when a team loses they go to the press conference and tell the media strait up that they lost and they need to fix things. Example: look at the Saints in the NFL this year, They arent crying to anyone but themselves.

We did this out of protest to how the NPPL handled the situation. towards our two teams involved and how the fans were not given the respect to be told what was going on for the entire time.

You protest when you feel something unjust is taking place, and that is what we did.

Understood, what i THINK would be cool/badass since this incident seems to feel unfinish would be a rematch-streetball style.

Jsut for ****s and giggles and to see the "what woulda happened" since it seems the entire competitive paintball world feels you[team] owes it to those fans and since neither team feels satisfied, i think it would be great. Even cooler if filmed and put up for our veiwing pleasure.

we only hurt ourselves. We did this out of protest to how the NPPL handled the situation. towards our two teams involved and how the fans were not given the respect to be told what was going on for the entire time.

You protest when you feel something unjust is taking place, and that is what we did.

I apologize for not fighting for 1st, trust me neither team felt exactly satisfied.

Thank you for that, I can understand that much more, but what Oliver said sounded like an excuse to me, I know you felt like the nppl screwed you over but you should have still fought for first, I know they were tired but part of being a professional is never giving up. Your small post shed more light than any of the longer posts. thanks

Understood, what i THINK would be cool/badass since this incident seems to feel unfinish would be a rematch-streetball style.

Jsut for ****s and giggles and to see the "what woulda happened" since it seems the entire competitive paintball world feels you[team] owes it to those fans and since neither team feels satisfied, i think it would be great. Even cooler if filmed and put up for our veiwing pleasure.

we only hurt ourselves. We did this out of protest to how the NPPL handled the situation. towards our two teams involved and how the fans were not given the respect to be told what was going on for the entire time.

You protest when you feel something unjust is taking place, and that is what we did.

I apologize for not fighting for 1st, trust me neither team felt exactly satisfied.

& Now we get a 3rd story of what "really" happened from yet another Ironmen player.

Maybe you guys should all sit down in a room together & get your BS stories straight. Then at least you'd all be telling the same lie.

On a real note, why don't you guys walkout on San Diego and promote the PSP as the premiere league... then the PLAYERS are truly unifying professional paintball under one sanctioning body. In my opinion, NXL makes more sense to casual viewers, who don't follow paintball... since the NXL scoring system resembles scoring seen in Hockey, soccer, baseball, etc. The new KEE monster corporation(NPS/PMI) is a supporter of the PSP. Your main team sponsors already chose to support the PSP over the NPPL. Impact and Ironmen feel jilted by the NPPL. Joy Division has been very salty on the NPPL for two seasons and the rumor is that they might be bailing on NPPL next year. Seems like a great time to make a statement.

I like the point fixing angle. Since neither team will get the full first place points it actually helps Dynasty. .

Hmm. how about this - both Ironmen and Impact should get 24.5 points for this event by sharing first. That extra .5 point makes it more difficult for Dynasty to win the series crown by eliminating the possibility of a tie. For example, Dynasty may need to finish 4 places ahead of Ironmen instead of 3 places.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BWing21

You protest when you feel something unjust is taking place, and that is what we did.

Great. Then I think I'll protest how poorly the pro players know the rules by applying a 1-4-1 to the first player in every game. You guys barely know the rules and don't listen when we try to explain them. It's no wonder you always feel like you're getting screwed.

i was going to continue with this but screw it. Keep blaming the refs for everything you don't like.

I would like to see how the other pro teams respond to the lack of a power house team in the event. When it comes to boycotting the legaue, the last person who threaten to do that i belive was Knuth but he apparently got over it and the NDs played out the year(PSP chi town 05, controvesal call against XSV claimed Rocky bunker wiped a hit on a flag run in OT that knocked them out of the finals, XSV would get stomped in the finals via Dynasty). When that happened I dont remembering any other teams stepping up and helping em' out, this seems like a more legit scneriao.

to further elaboriate on the streetball rematch, seeing the intrest in this controversy i would bet 90% or more of the fanbase in competitve pb would watch the rematch in which dye could "sponsor", talk about exposure! and would be a kick in the face to the NPPL. "if you can't handle a tournement final then we will!"